Profile of DHARA
Development of Health & Agriculture Rehabilitation Advancement (DHARA) is a woman-headed national NGO committed to promoting 'women-led women development'. It was established by a group of educated and like-minded female social workers to address the conditions of the vulnerability of the disadvantaged women & children in particular by establishing partnerships for identification
and implementation of community interventions that are financially, technologically, and environmentally efficient and thus contribute to achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Year of Establishment: 2001
Legal status: Registered, as a non-profit and non-governmental organization with the Government:
No. Department of Women's Affairs MBA-218 18-01-2003
2. Development of Youth 45/2004 03-04-2004
3. NGO Affairs Bureau 2216 3-4-2007
4. Europea ID(Pador) BD-2009-FSP-2601926582
Contact Person: Lipika Das Gupta, Executive Director. Mission and objectives
Mission: Serve the needs of women to reduce their relatively higher vulnerability to poverty, disaster, and climate change by equipping them with skills, knowledge, opportunity, and access to decision-making and through this, empower them to also accelerate sustainable living by the disadvantaged poor communities. Objective: In fulfilling our mission, the objective of DHARA is to:
• Promote human rights, awareness, and motivation
o Democracy and human rights
o Family laws, women trafficking, etc. o Children's rights
o Hygiene promotion, with particular reference to an adolescent girl, mother, and child
o STDs and HIV/AIDS
o Drama, by the children of the beneficiaries
o Inter/national days observance
• Improve access to basic services
o Health: Mother & Child Healthcare (MCH) and primary healthcare services. o Water & sanitation: Safe drinking water, toilet, and eco-toilet. o Education: Non-formal primary education and adult literacy
o Agriculture, aquaculture and nursery: Food security through improved access to quality seeds, flood and saline water resilient crop seeds, production and storage
o Shelter: Low-cost, flood resilient, and cyclone-resistant housing
o Energy: Improved solar home systems, bio-fuel, Improved Cook Stove (ICS), biogas, etc.
• Strengthen capacity to generate income & livelihood
Skills development and support for various farm and non-farm Income Generating Activities (IGAs).
• Develop access to alternative micro-finance
Women groups to mobilize resources.
